Percent complete with nothing to compare it to
A column of percentages tells you what people believe. Without the figure the plan expected by today beside it, you cannot tell 40 percent on time from 40 percent a month behind.
Weekly update
Construction schedule progress tracking
Every week the superintendent and the project manager walk the schedule and ask the same question about each activity: how far along is it, and is that where it should be? In Fidrel you enter percent complete directly on the chart, and the schedule compares it with what the plan says should be done today and marks the activity ahead, on track, behind or overdue. This page covers the weekly routine and what the comparison assumes.
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Why weekly updates go stale
The update takes longer than the meeting
If entering progress means opening a table, editing a cell and saving, it happens before the owner meeting and not before. A one-click update is the difference between weekly and monthly.
Actual dates lost in the notes
When an activity actually started on the 14th, that fact lives in a daily report. Unless it is on the activity, the plan keeps measuring from the date it was supposed to start.
How planned progress is worked out
Planned progress assumes even progress across the working days of the working calendar: an activity that runs ten working days is expected to be about half done when five of them have passed. Actual progress is the figure the team enters. The difference is shown in percentage points, positive when you are ahead and negative when you are behind. An activity that has not started and is not yet due is never marked behind, because nothing is expected of it yet.
Scheduling
Groups and sub-activities
The progress of a group is calculated from its sub-activities. If you type a value on the group, it is spread over the sub-activities in date order, earliest first, which is useful for a quick roll-up but is a convention, not a measurement. The group’s own dates are its own. For the real picture, update the sub-activities where the work is.
The weekly update in Fidrel
Step 1
Open the schedule and click the progress ring
In the list or the chart, click the ring in the done column. A small panel asks how far along you are, with a slider, quick values from 0 to 100 percent and what the plan expects by today. You can also drag the progress on the bar.
Step 2
Read ahead of plan, on track or behind
Fidrel compares your figure with Planned to date and marks the activity Ahead of plan, On track, Behind plan or Overdue. The gap in points shows beside the word, and within five points either way still counts as on track.
Step 3
Turn on the progress line
Switch on Progress line to draw where each activity stands today: the line bends right when you are ahead of plan and left when you are behind, so the weak spots in the whole schedule show at once.
Step 4
Enter the actual dates
Open the activity and fill in Actual start and Actual finish. With an actual start the activity stays where it began, and what follows is counted from its finish, so the plan re-forecasts from facts.
Actual dates and deadlines
Actual start and Actual finish cannot be in the future, and the finish cannot come before the start. A Deadline is a separate field: it does not move the plan, but it shows whether the activity finishes in time and how many days it is past the deadline. Together with a saved baseline, you can read variance in days, which is what an owner meeting usually asks for.
What the comparison does not do
Planned progress is a straight line across each activity’s working days, not a weighted or S-curve. There is no earned value calculation and no resource-loaded progress in the schedule. Percent complete is entered by people; Fidrel does not measure progress from the field or the model. Only project and organization administrators can change progress, and participants and guests with access read it.
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Click the progress ring on the activity and set how far along you are, with the slider or a quick value, or drag the progress on the bar.
It compares your figure with the planned progress by today, assuming even progress across the working days. Within five points either way counts as on track.
Yes. Enter Actual start and Actual finish on the activity. With an actual start, the activity stays where it began and what follows is counted from its finish.
No. Planned progress is a straight line over the working days, and there is no earned value or resource-loaded progress.
It is calculated from the sub-activities. A value you type on the group is spread over them in date order, earliest first.
No, only project and organization administrators. Participants and guests with access to schedules read the progress and the pace, and can comment on an activity.